Saturday, September 10, 2011

Celebrating Human Foibles: That State Farm Commercial With The Falcon

This State Farm advertisement does a great job of illustrating some basic human weaknesses. The fact that it seems to celebrate those weaknesses and successfully use them to sell a product designed to protect us from the consequences of our acting on those foibles illustrates quite a bit about Americans ambiguous relationship with irony: we love it but don't understand it.

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Permit me to stretch your tolerance for semi-relevant comments by noting that the City of Madison will give first reading Monday night to an animal ordinance that bans chickens, ducks, goats, and other useful and edible creatures from the city limits but which allows falcons, hawks, and pigeons.

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